bakerstreet | lights out

LIGHTS OUT
a dark room meme

Uh oh! Looks like something weird is happening, here! Did someone forget to pay the electricity bill? Or has that storm outside caused a blackout? Who knows! Reasoning aside, you are now trapped in darkness. You can't see anything, anything at all! And you can't even adjust to this darkness, for some reason! There's only black, black, black. Something about this room is odd, for certain!

How this is going to go down
♦ You will post as your character as ANON, because you're in the dark!
♦ There is no putting your character's name in the subject line. However, if you like, you can put your character's series/canon. It's no fun if you know who you're interacting with right away!
♦ You're free to set up your character fumbling around in the dark and such, just so you remember which comment is yours in this anon mess, if anything.
♦ Those who reply to you will roll the RNG for the specifics of the situation!
♦ Yay! In the dark shenanigans!!
♦ When you guys are ready, the lights go on, you can log into your character journals, and it's time to admire the awkward in the light.

♦ ONE: WHY IS IT SO SMALL AND CRAMPED IN THIS ROOM? Wait, this isn't a room, this is a closet. It looks like you've been locked inside for Seven Minutes in Heaven, or just for shits and giggles! The door doesn't seem to be opening, and it sounds like some ... Barry Manilow is playing? Oh, talk about awkward.
♦ TWO: BRR, WHY IS IT SO COLD? Looks like your clothes are missing! For some reason, you're only dressed in your underwear, or even commando if you feel like being really mean to your muse. Are you in bed with someone? Just can't find your clothes? Are THEY wearing your clothes? Up to you, because it really doesn't make it any less awkward.
♦ THREE: A LITTLE HANDSY: Did someone just cop a feel? There's a lot of accidental (or... not accidental groping going on, for whatever reason! Talk about an awkward situation, mmmhmm!
♦ FOUR: OOPS, STUCK! One of you is stuck somewhere in this room, and can't get out! Either in a hole in the floor or tied to a bed or something! Whatever you can think of! Hopefully the other person can help you out in the dark.
♦ FIVE: ON AND OFF! Rather than totally darkness, the lights are flashing on and off, creepily. And it looks like there might be monsters in there with you guys?! Or are those illusions?

If you don't want to roll the RNG, that's fine! Go ahead and create your own situation, if you'd like!

Have fun, everyone!

(originally posted here at memebells)

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*his own voice is young, with a midwestern US accent* A classic. *can't help smiling a little*

[ Oho, that might be a bit of approval in his voice. ]

So you know of it. But have you read it?

Billy Gimp, and saving the world from itself? Who doesn't enjoy good dystopian fiction?

Besides, I read a lot.

Billy Gimp...

[ His fingers pause over the pages for a moment then resume. ]

It is a pleasure to meet another who enjoys the genre. Even if the circumstances are less than ideal.

Well, if this is supposed to be some sort of death-trap, it's pretty lame. *starts to move around the room, carefully listening and feeling*

[ There's a chuckle. ]

So one would say...before the trap is sprung.

My brother once set me up as the protagonist in "The Lady or the Tiger." This is considerably downscale from that.

[ Unbeknownst to the other, he's smiling to himself. ]

If there does exist even one door out of this place, I doubt there will be a fair maiden waiting behind it.

I don't see you doing much to help. Just waiting for whoever's behind this to come and gloat or something?

Why expend energy in searching for a way out when you can wait for the mastermind to show himself? If there is one failing in such people, it is their need to gloat.

[ He would know - what's the fun in having power if you don't show off every now and again? The danger is only in overconfidence. ]

*a chuckle of agreement, still with sounds of movement as he continues searching the room* Energy isn't something I have a short supply of.

*the movement stops for a moment, and then there's a startled hiss of pain*

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you didn't actually see that ;-)

I saw nothing~

Then the beans have not been spilled...

/confused; I'm sorry if I missed a subtle book reference D|;;;

Just me making a reference to forgetting this was anon